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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ex-president Donald Trump, whom current president Joe Biden unseated last November via a contentious presidential election, announced Wednesday that he has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google and their respective CEO's of Mark Zuckerburg, Jack Dorsey, and Sudar Pichai in response to what he says is censorship by the tech giants who banned him from the social media outlets earlier this year.
Facebook banned the former president from posting on its site indefinitely after accusations that he violated its rules by inciting the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer, and Twitter banned him until 2023. Twitter offered the same reason for kicking him to curb and off its Internet site as Facebook did.
"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," Twitter said relative to its ban.
Filed in the U.S. District Court in Miami, the lawsuit seeks class action status against the tech companies and alleges that Trump and a host of others kicked off the social media platforms have been been unjustly censored by the companies in violation of their first amendment rights.
“We’re going to hold big tech accountable,” Trump said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Trump's Twitter account, before it was deleted by Twitter officials, had approximately 79.5 million followers, though former president Barack Obama has the most Twitter followers at over 127 million, followed by Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Cristiano Ronaldo, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
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